{"id":300433,"date":"2019-11-11T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300433"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:36:57","slug":"what-is-a-smart-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-is-a-smart-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a smart meter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A smart meter is a digital meter that replaces old analog meters, which are used in homes to record electrical usage. <\/p>\n<p>These digital meters can transmit energy consumption information to the utility (as it is connected to the internet) in frequent intervals, and can monitor consumption more precisely, thereby enabling more informed energy choices. <\/p>\n<p>In India, the implementation of smart meters is at a very early stage, and is done only in select pockets of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka etc. <\/p>\n<p>Here are five ways a smart meter helps <\/p>\n<p>1. For consumers, smart meters help in monitoring and managing electricity consumption and save money. It can be like your mobile pre-paid connection. You can buy electricity for a fixed amount, and use it. After finishing, you can top-up, just like a mobile recharge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smart meter is a digital meter that replaces old analog meters, which are used in homes to record electrical usage. These digital meters can transmit energy consumption information to the utility (as it is connected to the internet) in frequent intervals, and can monitor consumption more precisely, thereby enabling more informed energy choices. In India, the implementation of smart meters is at a very early stage, and is done only in select pockets of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka etc. Here are five ways a smart meter helps 1. For consumers, smart meters help in monitoring and managing electricity consumption and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}